My favourite trade rag, Dr Dobbs’ Journal, has released the list of it’s 18th Jolt Awards finalists (the IT industry’s “Oscars”).

In the collaboration tools segment, the wonderful Mingle project collaboration product by ThoughtWorks Studios.

I was lucky enough to see Mingle develop from its earliest genesis, and got to play with some code on our “Mingle Mondays” in Sydney. I’m not overly impressed with many products these days (18 years of IT makes one a tad cynical) – but I went mad for Mingle from the earliest days and each release has knocked my socks off considering few the lines of code and the short period of time to develop.

Massive congratulations to the entire ThoughtWorks Studios team.

Also congrats to our friends at Atlassian/Cenqua and JetBrains – I’m sure we’ll have more products on the list next year and give you more running for your money! ;-D